Data Scientist - Associate Vice President

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, C++, C Programming, SQL, Cloud computing, Scala Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, MATLAB Programming, PyTorch, TensorFlow, R Programming

Job Description

Paytm is India’s leading digital payments and financial services company, which is focused on driving consumers and merchants to its platform by offering them a variety of payment use cases. Paytm provides consumers with services like utility payments and money transfers, while empowering them to pay via Paytm Payment Instruments (PPI) like Paytm Wallet, Paytm UPI, Paytm Payments Bank Netbanking, Paytm FASTag and Paytm Postpaid - Buy Now, Pay Later. To merchants, Paytm offers acquiring devices like Soundbox, EDC, QR and Payment Gateway where payment aggregation is done through PPI and also other banks’ financial instruments. To further enhance merchants’ business, Paytm offers merchants commerce services through advertising and Paytm Mini app store. Operating on this platform leverage, the company then offers credit services such as merchant loans, personal loans and BNPL, sourced by its financial partners.

About the Team:

Paytm Analytics team is responsible for making the decisions that impact the strategic direction of the company. Team exhibits business process knowledge and provides solutions for business progress. They adapt and initiate change in the organization.

About the role:

Evangelize and demonstrate value and impact of analytics for informed business decision making by developing and deploying analytical solutions and providing data driven insights to business stakeholders to understand and solve for various lending business nuances.

Expectations/ Requirements - 10 + years of experience into data science field

• Build and strengthen relationships with functional leaders in sales, product, growth, risk and collections by identifying areas where analytics could help solve existing problems or strengthen business operations
• Apply problem solving frameworks to break the complex business problems faced by the BUs and organization in smaller more manageable problems and translate the business problem in to data and analytics problem
• Identify various business opportunities and apply analytics to optimize conversions and risk
• Generate actionable recommendations based on huge platform data and communicate the insights generated by the teams
• Share reports and dashboards with business stakeholders to empower them to make data driven decisions
• Manage transformation projects that help to improve top line or bottom line through an analytical solution
• Be the champion of data and insight led decision making in the organization and drive change management efforts to bring stakeholders on board
• Manage large teams of business analysts and modeler to deliver analytical solutions and data driven insights to the business stakeholders

Superpowers/ Skills that will help you succeed in this role

• Expertise in commonly used Traditional classical techniques and New-age ML techniques
• Understanding of the intuition/logic/math/stats behind these methods
• Other techniques (e.g. NLP/Computer Vision etc.)/ML-OPs/ Data Engineering/ Cloud AWS, Azure etc. is a plus
• Team Management/ Project Management/Hiring and Team Development is essential

Education: any Graduate or Post Graduate

Why join us

• We give immense opportunities to make a difference, and have a great time doing that.
• You are challenged and encouraged here to do meaning work for yourself and customers/clients
• We are successful, and our successes are rooted in our people's collective energy and unwavering focus on the customer, and that's how it will always be